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I'm not sure what your "it" is, but I'm wondering if AMD might wish to re-release the R200 specs without an NDA, seeing as it's prepared to do the same thing for it's more recent R500/R600 cards. It would be great to see these cards realise their potential, especially since I still have one...

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I'm not sure what your "it" is, but I'm wondering if AMD might wish to re-release the R200 specs without an NDA, seeing as it's prepared to do the same thing for it's more recent R500/R600 cards. It would be great to see these cards realise their potential, especially since I still have one...

I can ask them but I would doubt it just since they wouldn't want to spend their time on the old chips they basically care nothing about, but we'll see.

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I can ask them but I would doubt it just since they wouldn't want to spend their time on the old chips they basically care nothing about, but we'll see.

The simplest way to rid itself of any further R200 questions would be to dump the old specs with someone like the OSI . Ideally more complete specs, but *exactly the same specs* as last time would still be a "win" of sorts.

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Catalyst 6.5 was the official (and somewhat under the radar) End of Life for the r200s. How long ago was that now? And these chips are still on the shelves of one of the worlds largest retailers? It would make sense to release the docs.

Of course, unless they do release the r200 spec, I won't be upgrading to another AMD/ATI system (like my current one) ever again.

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An even easer option for them would be to release Dave Arlied (and maybe others) from his original NDA, he could then make public the specs he has and we'd have working XvMC for r200 amongst other things.